Potonggang Station

Pot'onggang
보통강
Korean name
Hangul 보통강역
Hanja 普通江驛
Revised Romanization Botonggang-yeok
McCune–Reischauer Pot'onggang-yŏk
General information
Location Pot'onggang-guyŏk,
P'yŏngyang
North Korea
Owned by Korean State Railway
Connections Metro: Hyŏksin Line
History
Opened 21 March 1944
Electrified yes
Original company Chosen Government Railway
Services
Preceding station   Korean State Railway   Following station
Terminus
P'yŏngnam Line
toward Namp'o
TerminusPot'onggang Branch
Terminus
P'yŏngyanghwajon Branch
Terminus
Location
Pot'onggang
Location within Pyongyang

Pot'onggang Station is a railway station in Pot'onggang-guyŏk, P'yŏngyang, North Korea, on the P'yŏngnam Line of the Korean State Railway.[1] It is also the starting point of branchlines to P'yŏngyang's marshalling yard, P'yŏngyang Choch'ajang, and to P'yŏngch'ŏn Station that serves the P'yŏngyang Thermal Power Plant.[2]

Local transit transfers can be made from Pot'onggang station to the P'yŏngyang Metro's Kon'guk station on the Hyŏksin Line.

The station was opened on 21 March 1944 by the Chosen Government Railway.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Kokubu, Hayato, 将軍様の鉄道 (Shōgun-sama no Tetsudō), ISBN 978-4-10-303731-6
  2. ↑ The traffic and geography in North Korea: P'yŏngnam Line(in Korean)
  3. ↑ 朝鮮總督府官報 (The Public Journal of the Governor-General of Korea), Showa No. 5137, 22 March 1944


Coordinates: 39°01′52″N 125°42′35″E / 39.03111°N 125.70972°E / 39.03111; 125.70972

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